What was Your Biggest Purchase You Made

While Manic. This is coming from XP1155's post about the sad plant, LOL!

Whenever I am manic or hypo now, I hand my credit card over to my husband because I get online and buy everything that looks remotely interesting.

Then I get the stuff and don't know what I was thinking. I actually purchased so many clothes and so many home decorations that we have no place for. I get into redecorating my house whenever I am hypo or manic.

When I get the decorations, I do not know what I was thinking or even where to put the stuff so it all hangs out in the basement just in case I will want to use some of the things I have bought, but it hasn't happened yet and the stuff is just collecting dust in the basement.

How about you?

About £100 worth of shots at a local pub and then £200 the follwing day online I dont carry my credit card around with me and I only use it for emergencies now. I also have not memorised my pin number makes it really hard to use the credit card without the pin lol

LOL Laura. Good thing you don't remember your PIN #.

my biggest purchase was about 5000 on cocaine while I was manic

Ouch!!! Astone

Lol yes glad I still don't know my PIN number lol

I can relate!

12,000 on a truck that I eventually totaled it and almost died six months after purchasing it.

Fun question SunAngel!! The biggest purchase I have made while in mania was a car, $10,800 it was a beautiful camaro! I bought it around christmas, snow on the ground, let me tell you it was a mistake! Death trap on wheels while snowing. But it was pretty!

$40,000 on a vehicle, did i mention i don't drive? I like the heated leather seats....and the sun roof....

Hahaha with all of these posts about buying deathmachines, I'm kind of grateful I've never had money to spend. However, I am admittedly fond of thievery & shoplifting. All in all, I've stolen about $700 worth of cosmetics, office supplies, petty ******** USUALLY while manic. But it all depends. Hahaha at least none of it ever went to waste!

Musical instruments, usually... excercise machines I never use. One year I kept buying tickets and travelled all over with my son (who found the whole thing exciting, from Holland to Africa. BOY that was an expensive year!) Educational material,lots of books,
classical music (Complete Bach, Mozart, Beethoven... about a hundred quid each.) At least we listen to the music!

Oh, by the way, this thread got me off amazon! I've not been able to sleep, and have just bought a couple of books on classical guitar. Checking this thread out made me aware that I was just about to start purchasing books that I really don't need! How many classical guitar methods does one really need anyhow???

I spent $900.00 + on mafia wars points, and underground purchased weapons. I had to quit after that. My husband drew the line.

My most expensive manic purchase was $2500.00 for a plastic model horse that was custom painted (see image below). I bought the horse in 2007 and sold the horse recently for $3200.00. I was doubtful that anybody would pay that much for the horse but he sold within three hours after I posted him online for sale.

I've never had a credit card, thank goodness, because usually my urges to spend involve traveling and who knows where I would be now. I've also never had a great deal of money. So I guess my numbers don't seem that bad. Borrowing is something I haven't allowed myself to do, except out of absolute necessity (got sick, didn't work, couldn't make rent) and it's a very good thing I haven't.

But the most I've ever spent in one day was $1800 on a spa certificate Terrible part is the place went out of business and kept my money Worst thing I ever brought home was a dog, though. He's my best little bud, but it was such a stupid thing. I called the bank to get money out of savings, and he was $700. I just didn't even plan on getting a dog, at all, let alone that day, and I saw him and thought he was perfect ( I wasn't living in a situation that would make a dog make any kind of sense). It was a terrible decision at the time, and it still holds me back a bit from making certain changes in my life, because I have to be able to provide a good home for him even if it's not as good for me as it could be elsewhere (too much drama, no privacy - renting a room in friend's house, with another renter downstairs, so three of us). I have considered asking someone to take him for me, at a point when I was unable to care for him properly, but couldn't do it. Thankfully my room mate cared for him for a while.

Sun Angel: have you considered selling any of that stuff online, like on Ebay or something? At least you'd get some money back for the stuff you realized you didn't want or need later :P Do you have kijiji there?

I also buy books, and I was thinking about taking guitar lessons by DVD or online. LOL

The most expensive was for a new car because I HAD to have leather seats. My current car was less than a year old. I bought the same car only a year newer, in gold instead of blue with.... drum roll..... leather seats!

My second most expensive item was new siding for my house that I had to sell a few months later. I no longer had the house but had to keep paying for the siding for another two years. Again, all I could think about was new siding that I HAD to have NOW.

I purchased a 400.00 boombox in 1982 and my recent meltdown in 2008 I bought a 10,000 dollar crotch rocket!

The biggest purchase I ever made while manic was a house for $110,000. It was a real fixer upper. We had to sell it about 6 months later. Of course at the same time I was trying to start a business and planning to leave my first husband I did for a while on an impulse but we got back togrthrt. It was years later when we divorced for real. I have this affinity for houses and thinking that I can restore them or redecorate them all by my self when I am manic. I know I am starting to get there when I start thinking about moving the furniture and remodeling the kitchen. Someday I'll have my dream kitchen, but until then, I'll use my old 1950s kitchen without enough counter space and the appliances in funny places.

You guys, just to let you know that I am totally cracking up at all these replies, except, of course, where people almost got killed.

I don't feel so alone now and my purchases don't compare to some of you here.

I cannot sell anything I bought because I think someday I may use them so e-bay's out.

I also have a thing for pets while it is not super expensive i have purchased 3 ferrets on separate hypo-manic episodes, a tarantula, approximately 5 leopard gecko's, 2 snakes because they were pink, 2 tokay gekko's , about 1000 fish, all of these required elaborate housing, lighting etc, which while hypomanic was amazingly interesting, my latest....now that i am cycled back up is ants, i didn't buy the ants of course but i bought at least 500 dollars worth of items for my ants in the last week.

I want your geckos, snakes, & ferrets!! I'll take them allllll. I love reptiles & adorable, weasel-like cuddly creatures.

I have spent more money that I would ever admit while hypomanic. Most of it clothing and cosmetics. I did start selling things on Ebay a couple of years ago and was quite sucessful at it becoming a top rated seller. However, most of the money I made, I spent on Ebay buying more things that I don't need.

Roxiesmom, that is just so hysterical.

Clothes, shoes, purses, a 1987 Nissan Maxima for $22500 (which actually came in handy when my ex-husband lost his company truck - we went to a 2 for 1 sale and came home with a Ford F150 and a 1986 Grand Am).

A health food store. I invested $40,000.00 of my own money and borrowed $150,000.00 on top. A year later I closed the business and locked the doors and walked away from it all. I declared bankruptcy.

The only good thing is: I don't have credit cards anymore so I can't do any more damage. LOL

Phoenix, that started to really crack me up until I heard about the bankruptsy thing. Sorry you had to go through that.